The Minister for Education has appointed an Expert Advisory Group with expertise and understanding of regional communities’ needs, education and training, economic development and industry engagement. The Terms of Reference for the Expert Advisory Group are to:

Decades of reform to service delivery across Australia has introduced a diversity of publicly and privately provided services, aimed at improving both access and quality. But the gaps between regions and metropolitan areas on many measures of service provision and socio-economic outcomes are persisting. The smaller and more remote the community, the greater these gaps...

There’s a straightforward way of making sure more doctors work where they’re needed.

This document outlines the Victorian government’s response to the inquiry into fuel prices in regional Victoria, and responds to each of the committee’s three recommendations.

This paper outlines some of the findings from the 2018 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey that may have ramifications for social and economic policy. The findings include increasing use of paid child care, slowing in growth of household incomes, regional disparities and declining relative income poverty.